Horsehead Wetlands Center: 5/6/99

Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Thu, 06 May 1999 23:24:50 -0400 

Hi all,



   This is the Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands 
Center in Grasonville, Queens Anne County MD report for today. This is 
the third reports this year.

Birds seen:

   1  Double-crested Cormorant
   1  Am. Bittern (seen at 7:30am at SW corner of Lake Knapp)
   1  Least Bittern (same as above, but flush out and disappear)
   1  Great Blue Heron (flyby)
   1  Great Egret (flyby)
   2  Snowy Egret
   6  Green-backed Heron
   6  Mute Swan
  75  Canada Geese (each pair had 1, 6, 6, 8 goslings, rest are in eggs)
  12  Wood Duck (a pair with 8 ducklings)
  58  Mallard (no ducklings, but some hens seen at nests)
   6  Am. Black Duck
   1  Gadwall (drake is mated with a Mallard hen)
   4  Turkey Vulture
   1  Black Vulture
   6  Osprey (all three female at nests)
   1  Bald Eagle (adult)
   1  Virginia Rail (flushed out from under boardwalk)
   2  Killdeer (nest with three eggs found on private road with gravel)
   1  Solitary Sandpiper (Woodland Pond)
   1  Spotted Sandpiper (Chesapeake Bay Pond)
   1  Least Sandpiper (beach & mudflat at end of boardwalk in am)
   1  Pectoral Sandpiper (same as above)
   1  Short-billed Dowitcher (same as above)
   1  Baird's Sandpiper (beach & mudflat at end of boardwalk in am & pm)
   2  Willet (same as above)
   2  Herring Gull
   2  Great Black-backed Gull
   7  Common Tern
   2  Forster's Tern
   3  Least Tern
   8  Mourning Dove
   1  Great Horned Owl
   1  N. Flicker
   1  E. Kingbird
  16  Tree Swallow
   4  N. Rough-winged Swallow
  40  Barn Swallow
  11  Am. Crow
   6  Fish Crow
   1  Blue Jay
   7  Carolina Chickadee
   1  Carolina Wren
   1  House Wren
   5  Am. Robin
  12  Gray Catbird
  11  N. Mockingbird
   1  Brown Thrasher
  49  Eurpoean Starling
   1  White-eyed Vireo (Marshy Creek Trail)
   2  Yellow Warbler
   1  Magnolia Warbler (Marshy Creek Trail)
  20  Yellow-rumped Warbler (in all woods area)
   1  Yellow-throated Warbler (Marshy Creek Trail)
   5  Pine Warbler (both Piney Point Path & Marshy Creek Trail)
   8  C. Yellowthroat (Visitor Center Pond and nearby ponds and marshes)
  10  N. Cardinal
   1  Blue Grosbeak
   2  E. Towhee
   2  Song Sparrow
   5  Swamp Sparrow
  50  RW Blackbird
  17  C. Grackle
   6  BH Cowbird
  28  Am. Goldfinch
   
Pretty slow this week compare to same time last May with 75 species.


       Kevin Graff
       Baltimore, MD
       ggraff@erols.com